MT's "Quite Interesting" Thread

When describing me the other day, a friend of my girlfriend said I was a big guy but not Freakishly large (I neglected to mention that "Freakishly Large" was actually my overall goal). He then continued by saying "He's certainly not a meathead"

There seems to be a general misconception from a section of the general public that well built guys (or indeed ladies, for that matter) are not very intelligent. This isn't the first time I've heard this prejudice.

SO in order to challenge this misconception, this thread is for 'Miscellaneous interesting facts.' Share and impart interesting information, Surprise your freinds with very random knowledge, pub quizzes and dinner party conersations to make yourself sound like a genius.

More educated people are more likely to drink alcohol (university students then.....)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products

Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.

A chip of silicon a 6mm square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a whole city block.

There are actually registered organisations around the world called: "The institute of totally useless skills", "The international association of sand castle builders", "National society for prevention of cruelty to mushrooms", "Cookie cutter collectors club" and the "International correspondence of corkscrew addicts."

Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

The longest word in any normal dictionary is floccinaucinihilipilification...the measure of something as being worthless.

Did you know it would take 2700 times the age of the universe to drive to the next galaxy in a bus travelling at 50KPH!

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

One year is exactly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 54.5 seconds.

Did you know that it would take 44,000 years to write out a googolplex? That is: 1 x 10 ^ (â€˜to the power ofâ€™)10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000!

Months that begin with Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th. Butterflies taste with their feet 25% of women think money makes a man sexier.

he numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"

The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.

According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

Jake is an absolute God.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.